Day 1 versus day 35 I know I haven't been following the Walstad method strictly in terms of plant choice, but I want to try things out and see what happens. :p Tank size: 10 gallon Substrate: 1 inch organic soil, topped with 1/2 inch 2-3mm size dark gravel Temperature 24-26 Celcius pH 7.5...

Hello, had fish before but new to planted tanks. Going for a low tech setup and Anubias is looking a little worse for wear. Some background: nitrate about 20ppm, Phosphorus 0.75 ppm, KH 120 ppm, PH 7.5. I started dosing Tropica Premium nutrition liquid fert a couple days ago and haven't...

Hi guys, i am new to the planted aquarium and i have recently just started my nitrogen cycle with plants and 2 dwarf gouramis in there. I purchased 3 species of plants, namely the rotala rotundifolia and 2 other species that i am unsure of. As for the cycle, i added PSB probiotics and have been...

I'll post a short background on how the tank got to this point below, but does anyone know what's going on here / seen this before: Short background: last summer I went on a long-ish vacation (10 days) and asked my non-fish keeping neighbor to feed my small cohort of nano-fish once and a...

Here is my 10 gallon blackwater rio Orinoco biotope which uses the walstad method, I’m considering submitting it into the BADC2021 contest. Any advice to make it better? It has 4 celithacara maronii (keyhole chiclid) and 10 nannostromus beckfordI (beckfords pencilfish) my goal is to get into...